this is bbc world news today. i'm karin giannone. our top stories: france wins the world cup, beating croatia 4—2. this is the scene live in paris as the nation goes wild. croatia may have lost, but you wouldn't know it from these pictures — they celebrate the best performance by one of the smallest countries ever to reach a world cup final. and president trump arrives in helsinki, ready for face—to—face talks with the russian president, vladimir putin another big sporting final, novak djokovic beats kevin anderson to win the wimbledon‘s men's singles title for the fourth time. hello and welcome to world news today. france have done it — les bleus have won the world cup, beating croatia 4—2.

they were champions on home soil in 1998, and they are champions again, 20 years later, in russia in 2018. it was a dramatic and at times controversial match, with a penalty awarded against croatia by var. live to the bbc‘s olly foster at the luzhniki stadium. six goals in a final, pretty good value? it was, what a fitting climax to what has been a wonderful tournament, with so many twists and turns. we have seen the rise of the underdog over the past 31 days, when you think of the major nations who went home far too early for their liking — germany, spain, braziltoo feeling they could have gone further. but croatia couldn't keep that trend going. they had come through seats of extra time, two penalty shoot—outs, to get to this finals. such a small footballing

nation, but packed full of world class players, but france were a class players, but france were a class act here. one of the pretournament favourites and they kept their heads as others lost theirs. they won 11—2 in a fantastic final. it takes five weeks to get insight of football's greatest prize. all the matches comes down to one final — for france and croatia the opportunity of a generation. 20 yea rs the opportunity of a generation. 20 years ago, france won it on home soil. that day they dominated from the start. although the croatia had the start. although the croatia had the better of the opening, the deflection of madzukic gave france the advantage. but perisic has been key to croatia's rise to the final and his equalisers was soured with and his equalisers was soured with an refereeing intervention. perisic connecting with his hand. they went

toa connecting with his hand. they went to a replay and a closer look brought a penalty. it was away by griezmann and that felt like a pivotal moment. while croatia protested, france looked to profit. first paul pogba brought up a two—goal advantage and then mbappe surely made it safe, becoming the first teenager to sore in the final since pele in 1958. there was a final twist with lloris running into trouble. but one croatia goal back was not enough. as the rain and the curtain came down, a second half storm was enough to take this world cup back to france. that was quite a storm, we felt it up here from our position. as lloris lifted the world cup trophy, a clap of thunder resounded around the stadium, i think the footballing gods approving of what they have seen. france are

on top of the world again. they will be partying in moscow and in paris. our correspondent sent this. it's a completely bonkers evening in paris, where there seems to be license to do whatever you want — cars are going by with people leaning out of windows, motorcycles going by, people without any helmets on. everyone is going completely football crazy. it all started an hour or two ago... i'm going to resume simply to say that we're here outside the eiffel tower, but across the land in every village and every town and every arrondissement of every city you will be seeing scenes exactly like this, as this country celebrates its "deuxieme etoile" — second star, two stars on its world cup record and everyone... everyone's. .. let's ta ke

let's take you live to paris. we saw incredible scenes, 20 years ago when didier deschamps as captain lifted the world cup on home soil in france 98. night falling in paris, the flares are out. what scenes we're seeing again there in paris. didier deschamps now head coach with les bleus joining deschamps now head coach with les bleusjoining an deschamps now head coach with les bleus joining an elite list of people who have won as a player and coached a team to victory, joining mario zagallo and franz beckenbauer. that the scene in paris now. they we re that the scene in paris now. they were be enjoying themselves and i'm sure that will be replicated across france. what of croatia? into their

first world cup final, just 20 years after they made their debut in the tournament, when they were knocked out by the french in 98. such a small nation, they have been punching above their weight for decades. 11—2 flattering the french, because for long periods the croatians dominated. our correspondent has been in zagreb. croatia have lost tonight, but you'd never know, because ultimately this is the best performance by one of the smallest countries to ever get to the final of a world cup and, well, what an incredible result. look at this! this atmosphere — of a team that's, well, barely 30 years old, independence after the fall of the former yugoslav republic and many of those stars were refugees during the civil war and now, well, what a moment. we have a team that have made the final. they were a 33/1 outside bet.

they were runners up, they beat greece, nobody thought they would get this far and they managed to beat england in the semifinal and when they did, seismologists said... well done... there there was a small tremor. i mean look at this atmosphere. seismologists said there was an earthquake when they beat england. well, tonight it will be louder and it will go on for longer. look at this atmosphere! gavin lee making friends in zagreb. it has been a fantastic tournament, the fifa circus now rolls towards qatar in 2022. this one has been epic on every scale, fifa saying it is the best. we will withhold our judgment on that, but it has been wonderful and it has been france's

world cup. thank you. ollie foster in moscow. president trump has arrived in finland's capital helsinki for a much—anticipated meeting with russia's president putin on monday. mr trump and the first lady, melania, arrived on air force one a short time ago. they came from the uk — where brexit dominated much of the conversation. speaking to cbs, the president said that the us faces challenges from all sides, including from the european union. i think the european union is a foe what, they do to us in trade. now, you wouldn't think of the european union, but they're a foe. russia's a foe in certain respects. china's a foe, certainly economically they're a foe. but that doesn't mean they're bad. it doesn't mean anything. it means that they're competitors. they want to do well and we want to do well. well, the president of the european council, donald tusk, has dimissed mr trump's claims. he's tweeted: "america and the eu are best friends. whoever says we are foes is spreading fake news." meanwhile donald trump's imminent

meeting with mr putin will be the first official stand—alone meeting for these two leaders — but mr trump says he has low expectations. i think it is a good thing to meet. ido i think it is a good thing to meet. i do believe in meetings. i believe that having a meeting with chairman kim wasa that having a meeting with chairman kim was a good thing. i think having meetings with the president of china was a very good thing. i believe it is really good. having meetings with russia, china and north korea, i believe in it. nothing bad's going to come out of it and maybe some good will come out. but i'm not going with high expectations. i don't really, i can't tell you what's going to happen, but i can tell you what i will be asking for and we will see if something comes from it. during his stay in the uk, president trump said that he had given the prime minister, theresa may, a suggestion for how to approach britain's departure from the eu —

but that she had found it too "brutal". well earlier today, mrs may revealed exactly what the us president's advice had been. ok, the whole country wants to know, prime minister, what was that brutal, tough suggestion? he told me i should sue the eu. sue the eu? sue the eu! not going into negotiations, sue them. actually... you know, no. we're going into... did you think about that for a second? we're going into negotiations with them. but interestingly what the president also said at that press conference was don't walk away, don't walk away from negotiations. then you will be stuck. so i want us to sit down to negotiate the best deal for britain. the brother of charlie roly, the businessman poisoned said the poison came from a perfume bottle. what has he been seeing. this an interview he gave on sunday. he said he spoke to

his brother charlie on the phone on sunday and he said his brother had told him the nerve agent had been contained in perfume bottle he picked up. he indicated it was a spray bottle. we put this to the police, the police in the uk. they would not confirm this, but they had previously said that the nerve agent had been found in a small bottle in mr roly‘s house. had been found in a small bottle in mr roly's house. what has he said about his brother's condition. to be honest he said he was worried about him. especially his mental state. he said he had not seemed quite right when he had spoken to him. he had spoke about ripping the hospital tubes out and evenjumping out spoke about ripping the hospital tubes out and even jumping out the window. but he said he was well enough to eat solid food. he is no longer being fed through a tube. the magnitude and the complexity of the operation for police becoming so

clear? it is a massive operation and the police are investigating whether it was linked and what links it has to the attack on sergey skripal and his daughter. they‘ re to the attack on sergey skripal and his daughter. they're looking at numerous sites. there has been a warning to people not to pick up strange items from the floor. i think the police have now seized some 500 items for examination. thank you. still to come: more sport. novak djokovic beats kevin anderson to win the wimbledon‘s men's singles title for the fourth time. the designer has been shot dead in florida. he was gunned down.

emergency services in europe are stepping up their efforts to contain the worst floods this century. nearly a hundred people have been killed. broadway is called the great white way, tonight it is blacked out. it is a reminder of the problems that the energy crisis has brought. 200 years ago today a huge crowd stormed the bastille prison in the first act of the revolution. today, hundreds of thousands thronged the streets. fairly penguins have been staggering ashore and collapsing after gorging on pilchards. the headlines, jubilant scenes in

paris as france beat croatia 11—2 in the world cup final. president trump has arrived in helsinki ready for talks with vladimir putin. novak djokovic has beaten kevin anderson to win the wimbledon final. he beat the south african for his fourth wimbledon and 13th grand slam title. novak djokovic has struggled for form since claiming the 2016 french open. here are the details. this what is it means to win your fourth wimbledon title. it had been 97 yea rs wimbledon title. it had been 97 years since a south african last graced a final here. but in novak

djokovic we see a man who is very familiar with this stage. the serb started the stronger, but anderson was capable of crafting opportunity. he's missed it. wide. a missed mark and a precedent set for the rest of the contest. another mistake gifting djokovic the first set. the best returner tennis has ever seen, djokovic makes you hit one more shot. times that is all it takes. but you don't win the longest semifinal in history without being a fighter. app but championship point was just around the corner. there was just around the corner. there was something of an inevitability about novak djokovic today. he is back and looks here to stay. here what is novak djokovic said about winning at wimbledon. what is novak djokovic said about winning at wimbledonlj what is novak djokovic said about winning at wimbledon. i had many moments of doubt and didn't know if

i could come back to the level to compete and this was my first grand slam final after a couple of years and there is no better place in the world to make a come back. this is a sacred place for the world of tennis. i always dreamed of holding this trophy as a young boy. so this is very special. and he may have lost but kevin anderson was magnanimous in defeat. i'm not feeling as fresh as i was. but this is such an amazing tournament and we fight to be on this court. over the la st fight to be on this court. over the last while there has only been a few individuals who have made it, so thatis individuals who have made it, so that is what it had to take for me to get here. i would have given another 21 hours to have the opportunity to play here. it meant a lot to me. thank you. a ceasefire is holding in gaza.

binyamin netanyahu said the raids we re binyamin netanyahu said the raids were in response to cross border attacks. in gaza city, crowdsjoined attacks. in gaza city, crowdsjoined a funeral procession for two teenagers. the israeli military said they were in a building used by hamas for training. our correspondent injerusalem hamas for training. our correspondent in jerusalem has hamas for training. our correspondent injerusalem has more on how the ceasefire is holding. there are reports of something that has been happening on a near daily basis of palestinians going to the perimeter fence, trying to launch

arson attacks on israel with helium—filled condoms. now, the israeli military said it carried out an airstrike against israeli military said it carried out an air strike against people doing that. there are reports that people have been injured in those. of course, this all follows what was a serious escalation on saturday, where israel said it carried out more than a0 strikes against sites in gaza. two palestinian teenagers we re in gaza. two palestinian teenagers were killed in one of strikes. palestinian officials say they were passers by to a building that was hit and we saw up to 200 israelis say mortars and rockets beings being fired from gaza. afghan authorities say at least seven people have been killed in a suicide bombing near a government middling in kabul. no one has yet claimed

responsibility. it comes as united nations said record numbers of people have been killed in afghanistan. there were over a thousand fatalities. more than 3,000 people were injured. most of the casualties were caught up in mililant attacks casualties were caught up in milila nt attacks and casualties were caught up in mililant attacks and suicide bombings. we have been speaking to the bbc‘s bureau chief about the numbers and who issing being held responsible for the deaths. the. un attributes 70% to the taliban and the others are to progovernment forces, including the americans and

remaining ten to other forces. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, says north korean and us officials have agreed to resume the search for the remains of american troops who went missing during the korean war. an estimated 5,300 soldiers never came home. talks will continue on monday to co—ordinate the next steps, including the transfer of remains already collected in north korea. iraqi police have fired in the air to try to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to storm the provincial government building in the city of basra. it follows days of unrest over unemployment and failing public services in southern iraq. a number of people are reported to have been injured. on saturday, the baghdad government imposed a curfew in basra and across southern iraq. while france and croatia have been doing battle

in the world cup final, another famous football team has been playing today — the senior team of the wild boars. theirjunior counterparts are still recovering in hospital after being trapped in a thai cave for more than two weeks. our correspondent howard johnson reports from the match. we are here at a senior game of the wild boar team here in mae sai. what we heard earlier before the game kicked off was two of the players telling us that they really miss playing with the younger team—mates. they say that normally they train with them every night after school, and that obviously over the last two weeks, they've really missed their presence. now, what we also heard earlier was from the ministry of public health. they said that they had allowed the parents to tell their children inside chiang rai hospital the sad news of the death of the former navy seal diver saman gunan. they offered condolences and thanks to him for what he did to rescue them from the cave. we also saw images of two of the boys crying, one holding up his gown to his eyes, wiping away tears. elsewhere in chiang rai today,

we saw a mural being painted by local artists who came together to put this large picture together. we saw pictures of saman gunan dominating this mural. there was alsojohn volanthen and rick stanton, the two divers who found the boys. we also saw a proposed statue unveiled for saman gunan. it's going to be around two and a half metres tall. it will feature the diver stood on a rock, and underneath him are 13 wild boars, representing the team that he was trying to save. now, the boys are due to be discharged from hospital on thursday. what we've heard is that they will return to their family homes, where they'll spend time with their friends and family recuperating after this ordeal. australia's southern koalas have considerably larger and thicker fur than their northern neighbours, a feature that'll come in useful when they experience winter in britain. a group of six are to be brought from adelaide, to live at longleat safari park

in wiltshire, making them the only ones of their kind in europe. laura foster reports. they are abandoning australia and moving to wiltshire. and when the five females and single male arrive, it will be the only place you can find southern koalas in the whole of europe and it's hoped, once this group settles into their new home in longleat, they will start to breed. it will be a very strict monitoring process of each individual koala and the koala as a group, so we can actually identify different behaviours and individualities and how it affects them. they are also brought being brought to the uk because wildlife experts want to raise awareness about the problems koalas are facing. although not classed as endangered, koalas are recognised as vulnerable. since the middle of the 19th century, millions have been killed for theirfur, and more recently, large portions of their habitat have been destroyed to build houses and roads. wombats have been chosen to keep them company on theirjourney and they will end up here,

at a new indoor and outdoor australia—inspired enclosure at longleat safari park. so, the koalas' new home isn't finished just yet. there are some eucalyptus trees here, perfect for the koalas to snack on between mealtimes, but they are still going to plant more trees. now, these have been picked especially from the longleat estate because they are perfect for koalas to really sink their claws into and scale all the way up. but they can eat up to 500 grams of eucalyptus leaves in a single day. that's one of the reasons the team here have been growing their own supply. we have faced some challenges. we had, obviously, the heavy snow back in march which has kind of set us back a little bit, but since this nice sunshine has happened, they have sprouted right up, so definitely become more positive. but when these six furry friends arrive in the autumn, it is hoped we will be able to learn more about how to help protect these iconic creatures.

laura foster, bbc news, at longleat. a woman has been rescued from the bottom of a cliff in california where she survived for a week by drinking water from her car radiator. angela hernandez was found by hikers in the big sur area, after they saw herjeep partially submerged at the bottom of a 60 metre drop. police say ms hernandez was conscious but had a shoulder injury and appeared to have suffered concussion. she told investigators she had swerved to avoid hitting an animal. now back to paris and show you what it looks like in a country that's just won the world cup final. paris isa just won the world cup final. paris is a city that is not going to sleep much tonight. a—2 against croatia a few hours ago. and they're celebrating! thanks for watching. it has been another fine, warm to

hot day across england and wales, whereas scotland and northern ireland have had more cloud and a bit of rain. east and south—east parts of scotland have held on to sunny spells and some warmth. but this front has changed things for many in northern ireland with some useful rain and in scotland as it has moved in. and pushing south—east across the rest of the uk on monday. over night the rains clear trg s clearing from northern ireland. reaching just into western england and wales by the end of the night. the bulk of england is clear. ten to 15 degrees. fresher and cooler towards western scotland and northern ireland. into tomorrow, the rain slowly moving east, pulling away from scotland with sunny spells following. northern ireland sunny

spells with some showers in the afternoon. the showers moving east through england and wales will include some heavy and thundery down pours. but very varied rain amounts and still some heat in the south—east. behind this system it is feeling fresher. that system takes some rain further east through monday night into tuesday morning. probably hardly anything at all in southern england. once that's gone tuesday has a sunny start, some cloud building, a few showers break out, but many places will remain dry and your temperatures are a bit down. still above average for the time of year. cooler and fresher across southern parts after the heat of weekend. then a fairly indistinct situation for wednesday into thursday. a light westerly flow.

that means temperatures won't be as high. still warm when the sun is out. and there will be a mixture of cloud and sunshine. so this is how your week is shaping up. it will be turning cooler and fresher. but not cold. temperatures still above average. sunshine and showers and the winds will be light. that is your forecast. you are watching bbc world news today the headlines: jubilation in paris as france wins the world cup following a thrilling a—2 victory over croatia. celebrations are going on right across france. fans revel in their country's second world cup. after leaving the uk earlier, president trump has arrived in helsinki where he is due to hold talks with vladimir putin on monday. he has described the eu as a foe alongside russia and china. theresa may has revealed that he suggested she sue the eu rather than negotiate

with it. but mr trump also advised her not to walk away from talks. and novak djokovic has won the wimbledon title for the fourth time, beating south african kevin anderson in straight sets. at ten o'clock, mishal husain will be here with a